When you’re looking over your assets, do you say to yourself, “Look what I’ve accomplished?” Do you consider your parents, teachers, opportunities and God?  Nebuchadnezzar the first King of what was considered a world empire had this problem.

Nebuchadnezzar thought he was really something.

Daniel 3:1-2

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.  And King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to gather together the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Everyone running for office claims to be better than his or her opponent. That has been happening since we became a nation. The man who led the first world empire thought of himself that way.

However, he was going to learn the hard way, when you think you’re something when you’re nothing, you are only deceiving yourself and some of your followers.

Think about it.

Gary

If you ever played pinball, you will know what I’m talking about. If you were born after 1970, google it.

The pinball itself is introduced to the game by the player pulling a plunger. After that it is at the mercy of a maze of ramps, bumpers, and traps plus the gentle nudges of the player.

I personally believe that most people think that is a good illustration of life with all of its variables. Life is only a game to most, being knocked around by many forces out of one’s control.

However, for the believer there is such a thing as the will of God.

Ephesians 5:17 

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

If you can spare the time, while you still have some, the will of God can be found in the Bible, man’s roadmap.

Don’t be a pinhead, I mean, pinball.

Give it some thought.

Gary

Hopefully, this is how life unfolds. You come into this world with nothing, grow up under a certain set of circumstances, get to have a personal relationship with God, then die. The Bible describes life as being as fast as your reading of that last sentence.

That was the story of Moses. God brought him into a faithful family, educated him in Egypt, and drove him into the wilderness for his master’s degree. After all of this, He gave him a commission to lead the children for forty years and then took him home.

Deuteronomy 34:4-6

The LORD said to Moses, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to The LORD’s word. He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day. Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.”

So here you are and the questions I’ll ask are: How are things between you and God?  How are you doing with your education and divine assignment in life?

Give it some thought.

Gary

I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time with faithbook. The problem arises in the fact that faithbook causes me to become angry because of the things said about me in it. I’m not that bad.

Why did God ever invent faithbook in the first place? Is He trying to reveal something to me that I’ve been suppressing all of my life? Can it be that He is trying to communicate directly to me through all His faithbook pages? So many posts, can I possibly stay up?

I’m not going to delete faithbook. I need this resource in my life.

Hebrews 12:1-2

 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

Faithbook has been a blessing for me since I signed on. My prayer is that it is a blessing for you also.

Think about it.

Gary

Take a good look in the mirror and you may discover you need a faith-lift. Your faith will have a much better appearance after a lift. People will ask, what in the world ever changed your faith so that it now has that appearance.

Don’t just choose any surgeon for the faith-lift.  Contact the one true Physician who has been able to bring about change in a person’s faith for thousands of years.

He’ll introduce you to a mirror that can reveal the change in your faith.

James 1:22-25

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Believe me, everyone will appreciate your new faith.

Think about it.

Gary

The movie City Slickers was shown in 1991. Here was the most humorous and interesting conversation that involved a 39-year-old going through a midlife crisis and an old cowboy.

Curly: “Do you know what the secret of life is?” [holds up one finger] “This.”

Mitch: “Your finger?”

Curly: “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean anything.”

Mitch: “But, what is the ‘one thing’?”

Curly: [smiles] “That’s what you have to find out.”

I’m here to tell you what that one thing that neither Mitch nor Curley knew.

Luke 10:42

But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

That one thing was to sit at Jesus’ feet and hear what He had to say.

Have you chosen that one good thing?

Give it some thought.

Gary

I had gone through the ice on the Allagash River. Looking up, I saw the outstretched arm and hand of my cousin. He yelled, “Take my hand!” That wasn’t the first time he rescued me, and there would be many more to follow, none of which included ice.

He’s gone now and a part of my support system went with him.

The Apostle Paul never missed an opportunity to thank those who were supportive of him.

Ephesians 1:15-16

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

Remember those who have been there for you through the years. Don’t forget to thank them before it’s too late.

Give it some thought.

Gary